The discovery of endogenous retroviruses
<p>Abstract</p> <p>When endogenous retroviruses (ERV) were discovered in the late 1960s, the Mendelian inheritance of retroviral genomes by their hosts was an entirely new concept. Indeed Howard M Temin's DNA provirus hypothesis enunciated in 1964 was not generally accepted, a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-10-01
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| Series: | Retrovirology |
| Online Access: | http://www.retrovirology.com/content/3/1/67 |